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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Anyone who believes in the essential role government can play in improving people's lives must also be the toughest critics of those who abuse the public trust.

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.